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Society for Endocrinology BES 2011

Symposia

Fat endocrinology: disorders of adipose tissue and lipids important to the endocrinologist

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Can we make more brown adipose tissue to treat obesity?

Van Marken Lichtenbelt W

The incidence of the metabolic syndrome has reached epidemic levels in the western world. With respect to the energy balance most attention has been given to reducing energy (food) intake. Increasing energy expenditure is an important alternative strategy. Adaptive thermogenesis, which is the increase in energy expenditure in response to cold or diet, may be an effective way to affect the energy balance.Several studies have confirmed that humans show sig...

ea0025s3.2 | Fat endocrinology: disorders of adipose tissue and lipids important to the endocrinologist | SFEBES2011

Familial partial lipodystrophy: an introduction and the importance of diagnosing FPLD

Suliman S

Lipodystrophy including familial, acquired and secondary forms displays the full spectrum of the metabolic syndrome including severe insulin resistance, hyperinsulinaemia; hypertension, hypertriglyceridaemia, low HDL cholesterol, and hyperglycaemia1. This group have an absolute or partial reduction in fat mass, yet often show more extreme metabolic features than obese individuals.Partial lipodystrophy may be genetic or acquired. Genetic causes...

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The link between insulin resistance, dyslipidaemia and fatty liver

Semple Robert

Insulin resistance (IR) is an important biochemical phenomenon because it is closely linked to major and highly prevalent diseases including diabetes mellitus, atherogenic dyslipidaemia, the fatty liver disease dysfunction, and ovulatory dysfunction. Yet major barriers to understanding the mechanisms linking IR to these clinical diseases have included 1. The difficulty in discerning cause and effect relationships in associated phenomena in a complex multisystem disorder and 2....

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What you need to know about the genetics of hyperlipidaemia

Shoulders Carol , Hutchison Claire , Duncan Emma , Sivapackianathan Rasheeta

This presentation will consider the ways that modern genetics and lipidomics are beginning to increase our understanding of specific lipid disorders that bear on human disease, ranging from life-threatening conditions of infancy through severe coronary heart disease of young adulthood, to indolent disorders of middle- and old-age. The case will be made for replacing the traditional, but now 45-year-old, Fredrickson and Lees essentially phenotypic classification of hyperlipidae...